My grandmother is Pearl Walker, listed on the U.S. American Citizens and Freedman of the Five Civilized Tribes. #782 Walkers of Marion County TN, enumerated on card #296. She was 8 years old 1901. How much Cherokee blood did she have?
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Hi Cheryl,
This query was answered back in AUG. To clarify this very succinctly: the Pearl Walker listed on the Freedmen Roll was not from Marion County, TN. She wasn’t born in Alabama and her father was not named Jeremiah.
This Pearl Walker, found on the Freedmen Roll, was born in Cherokee Nation (Indian Territory) in 1893. Her mother was a Freedmen descendant and her father was a Black American with no tribal affiliation, named Charles. Pearl married a man with the surname Vann and they lived in Oklahoma. Is your parent a Vann?
This Pearl (Walker) Vann was not listed with a Cherokee blood quantum because her enrollment was through Freedmen lineage of her mother. And this Cherokee slave status only came through a single maternal grandmother, actually. Her father was not a Cherokee slave or Cherokee freedmen descendant. And her maternal grandfather wasn’t either. The Cherokee slave grandmother through whom she gained Freedmen (descendant) enrollment, Rachel Eaton-Beck was owned by the a Cherokee citizen named Joe Beck, who was 1/16 Cherokee by blood.
If your grandmother was named Pearl Walker, and she was from the “Walkers from Marion County TN,” then she and this Cherokee Freedmen (descendant) Pearl Walker Vann were two different people.